- Corrections to Minutes: Neil noted that under action 5
(Reports/AMT) it should have reported that Neil had supplied Tim
with the LDAP data to be held.
- Actions arising from minutes of last meeting (2002-03-5)
- Actions Arising: CEG to discuss machine purchase
mechanism. (noted 2002-02-19) [Alastair/Jeremy/Ken]
Carried forward
- Actions Arising:
List of
modules to be published. (noted 2002-02-19). Gordon has started
to create this list but further work is required.[Gordon]
Carried forward
- Actions Arising:
Resources for
om: Paul will specify the command-line interface and
Simon will implement it. Done
- Primary/Secondary groups: decide which secondary groups are
needed. (noted 2002-02-19) Neil produced a
secondary groups report. Nobody had made any comments. He had
suggested seven standard secondary groups. It was decided that we
will have a minimal number of standard secondary groups in the
DICE world and there will be a managed way of creating additional
secondary groups.
Done
- Reports/LCFG technology: All maintainers of LCFG components
should do a minimum conversion. [All component maintainers].
Ongoing
- Further investigation needed to extract report changes and list
of changed reports [Jeremy/Neil].
Done
- Provide revised report layout and
any special HTML format requirements. [Jeremy].
Carried forward
- Finish Goals/Milestones page [Jeremy].
Done
- Use of XDM and issues of speeding up deployment of DICE. [CEG].
Carried forward
- Use of calendars to be investigated, especially central pilot
scheme [Jeremy]. Jeremy had sent round a report on this to
cos@inf. He recommends that staff should use the central service
that is to be available by the end of May and that the Division
will not be providing one.
Done
- Progress/Authorisation: account disabling flags to be clarified.
[Neil]. Neil and Simon confirmed that an account disabled flag
would be stored in the LDAP user account information and this
would affect the roles that a person was assigned to. As a
knock-on effect the (changed) role information would affect their
authorisation status.
Done
- The auto-generated test page has received feedback and
comments will be incorporated. [Alison].
Ongoing
- Deployment tasks need to notify Alison what types of documents
they will be producing. [All deployment tasks 'owners'].
Ongoing
- The EUCS
cmsweb s/w is to be evaluated. It would
be interesting to know what other software was evaluated
before EUCS chose to write their own in case it would be
relevant to us.[Chris] Done
- AMD needs some debugging. George is getting a test
machine. [George].
Ongoing
- Reports/Kerberos: New accounts are needed and a full set using
EUCS unique usernames is being worked on. Mail Simon if you want
to enable access to your account while Tim is away. Although
most of the milestones listed in the new progress pages are done
this is for a test system; more needs to be done to make this a
production system. [Tim].
Ongoing
- Clarify situation over users' whose login names will be
changing under DICE [Alastair]. Discussed under item 6.
- Reports/Network: Work is being done on components and filters.
The report is about to get a major re-write [George].
Ongoing
- Finalise source for generating hosts lists for SSH public keys.
[George]. George had suggested that there was a need for a way
of mapping kerberos host identifiers to network identifiers and
that it should come from the LCFG map by post processing.
Done
- Reports/Config Editor: There is a possible bottleneck over rfe because of the load on
Simon. Paul to discuss it with Simon. This has been partially
resolved. [Paul/Simon].
Ongoing
- Neil needs comments on the URLs proposed for home webspace
serving. He'll post to COs. [Neil]. We will recommend that user
web pages will have URL homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/username.
Other alternativer URLs mentioned in Neil's reports will be
implemented as redirects.
Done
- /yesterday, /risky, /public - principle and implementation:
All three file system areas were accepted on principle but there
would be no /risky/username mount points. The
/yesterday mount information would be a property of a partition
(not a username).
The /risky filesystem would be renamed /volatile.
/public was accepted as the appropriate file system name. There
would be /public/username/{web,cgi}. The latter two
would be held on single logical file systems (possibly the same)
on the homepages webserver.
/yesterday/home was accepted as the appropriate file system
name. The /yesterday/home/username map would be
constructed from the partition attribute of username in
LDAP together with the yesterday (or some such)
attribute of the named partition.
- nsu:
nsu would exist under DICE and would change the effective uid of
the person using the command on the local machine. It would be
effective for remote access to files only as long as we are using
NFS, but would be ineffective once a new file system was adopted.
Secondary groups should be used in preference to nsu (and
something like cvs in preference to both).
- DICE deployment publicity:
Bill reminded the meeting that we need more publicity about how
DICE deployment is going to effect people. Alastair mentioned
that the effects were very site specific. Site managers should
make sure that this publicity is provided.
[ACTION: Alastair/Jeremy/Ken]
- Conversion of accounts to UUN:
The conversion of usernames to the UUN versions may be quite time
consuming especially for any conversions within files owned by
the user concerned. Some people may wish to change fairly soon
since they may be less busy now than later. Site managers should
contact those users who will need to change their username to
warn them again of the need for the change and should arrange for
a list of things to change/look out for.
[ACTION: Alastair/Jeremy/Ken]
- Review of Goals/Milestones
Not discussed for lack of time.
